[WikiEN-l] Most wanted

[Javier Bassi]

It could be possible to only count real links and not template links
by doing this:
*List all the links from "What links here" from "Example_article"
*Enter to the ones that are in the Template: mainspace
*Count the number of links in "What links here" in each template
*Then number of real links = total links - links from templates

Maybe someone could code something like that. Also the program should
check add all the "what links here" from each template in a list, and
delete repeated articles (because one article may have two templates
both linking at other article)

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 07/02/11 10:56, Carcharoth wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Magnus Manske
>> <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Many of these links are due to templates, which I can do little about.
>>
>> Can *anyone*, even in principle, do something about that? It really
>> bugs me that the "what links here" function doesn't distinguish
>> between links arising from templates (often not directly relevant) and
>> links directly from the article wiki-text. If the answer is something
>> to do with parsers, please do explain!
>
> Yes, it's possible. It was necessary to register links from templates
> in the pagelinks table so that when a page is deleted or created, the
> HTML caches can be updated so that the link colour will change. With a
> schema change and some parser work, it would be possible to flag such
> links so that they are optional in "what links here".
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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